Ribbon and the like roll pack



Dec. 17, 1929. A. J. HARRIS ,7 ,5

RIBBON AND THE LIKEv ROLL PACK Fiied Aug. 6, 192a Mil,

I. A1TORNEY Patented Dec. 17, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RIBBON AND THE LIKE ROLL PACK Application filed August 6, 1928. Serial No. 297,593.

The object of this invention is to provide a neat and attractive pack in which a band of ribbon or other textile material shall be pre served against soiling by handling and also in a compact roll form and at the same time be clearly displayed to the end that the purchaser will have opportunity to select, from among diflerent colors or other qualities of the rolls, some particular color or other quality. To this end the body comprisingthe roll is contained in a transparent covering, as of transparent paper, which is not simply a single-ply sheet wrapped about the roll and creased or folded to enclose the roll, which involves the difiiculty of obtaining uniformity in a run of packs so formed, th necessity in most cases of tying up by cord or carefully performed application of adhesive or pasters and the likelihood of breaking or tearing the enveloping material in or after forming the pack, but which is an envelope having opposite walls exerting pressure on substantially fiat ends thereof, thus by keeping said body in a definite relation to the envelope avoiding a condition it is otherwise free to assume or what I term spilling of the body, to wit,'the displacement laterally of convolutions of the roll or coning or pyramiding of the roll.

In the accompanying drawing,

Fig. 1 is a plan view illustrating one form ofthe invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 shows in part more or less diagrammatically a'modification in which, in place of a ribbon-, braidor tape-like roll, the roll is of filamentous material, such as sewing twist;

Fig. at shows another modified form; and

Fig. 5 is a section on line 55, Fig. 4;

Let 1 indicate the mentioned body here including a roll formed by winding any band upon itself and having substantially fiat ends 1" and also including a core 2, but the core is not indispensable. The band may be tape, braid, ribbon, etc., or it may be composed of threads 3 lying side by side as in Fig. 3for instance, sewing twist. Such a roll is susceptible not only of unwinding but as hereinbefore defined. Even if these faults bowed apart by said body and are in common practice in some measure overcome, so that the rolls are adapted to be handled from the time they are formed until they reach the consumer without deformation, according to the circumstances either the resulting package is unduly expensive, or the material is not protected from soiling or, if it is, its color or other quality is concealed from the purchaser. No existing pack including such a roll is, so far as I know, at once free from a certain expense to prepare, of a nature to protect the contained roll from soiling and from spilling and other disturbance, and adapted to reveal its quality clearly to the purchaser.

l/Vherefore, having such a roll as I have defined, I combine with the same an envelope, as follows;

This envelope 4 may be of any form so that it has opposite side walls 4 which normally assume the planiform condition and offer some resistance to bowing them from each other, so that with the body 1 contained therein and therefore bowing these walls they would, as shown best in Fig. 2, keep said body in the definite relation illustrated, to wit, with the ends 1 presented thereto, incidentally preventing the body 1 from spilling. While I do not wish to be limited to the body having less thickness lengthwise of the axis of winding than it is Wide in any diameter (it is here shown circular but that is not indispensable), still that condition will manifestly insure its being maintained in the stated relation to the envelope by said walls thereof. What I mean to define herein by an envelope is container of more or less flexible stiff sheet material whose two opposite walls, as 4* e, are connected at opposite margins, as 5 5, in such a way that ingress or egress of the roll at either such margin is prevented; thus, in the example, the envelope is formed of a sheet which is folded at 5 5 to form flaps 6 which are folded toward each other and lapped, as shown, and gummed together Where they lap, one of the mentioned walls being formed by the lappedlflaps and the other by the opposing part of the material.

A salient object being that while the envelope shall preserve the integrity of the roll and prevent it from being soiled in handling, especially on counters in stores, it shall also afford the purchaser opportunity to inspect the color and other qualities thereof, the envelope according to the invention is composed of transparent sheet material, as paper. In order to reduce the cost of the article to the minimum it will be cheapest to form the whole envelope from a single blank of the transparent material, but so long as one of the mentioned walls is of such material and the purchaser thus has full opportunity to inspect the roll theinvention will be accomplished.

Various expedients for keeping the body 1 from falling out of the envelopes, as by pro viding it with flaps 8 and 9 and sealing or otherwise securing said flaps closed, or providing a securing means, as the staple 10, which as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 ties together the two walls 45 at a point coinciding with the aperture of said body. The latter expedient permits the end of the band to be left protruding from the envelope, as at 11, so that the purchaser can handle such end without separating the said body from the envelope; as shown in Fig. 1 this is also possible by leaving said end, as at 12, pro 'rnding from the envelope though flap 9 is gummed down.

One feature involved in my invention is the fact that, whereas the walls 4? exert pressure on the ends of the body and'thereby prevent the mentioned spilling, the envelope also exerts pressure in opposite directions diametrically across said body, thereby preventing unwinding or radial loosening of the band; in the example this latter is due to the walls 4: converging to points which are in a diameter and on opposite sides of and close to the periphery of said body, for instance, the diameter perpendicular to line 22 in Fig. 1.

Further, with respect to that species of my invention in which a body including a band wound upon itself about a central aperture is retained in an envelope (as herein defined) by securing means which ties the walls of the envelope together at a pointcoinciding with said aperture, whereby said body is protected from handling and may be unwound by a pull on the end of the band with incidentalrevolution of the body with respect to the envelope, I do not wish to be limited to the envelope in that case being transparent or to the particular form of such a body. I

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a pack comprising a contained body including a band wound upon itself in the form of a roll, said body having substantially flat ends and being of itself free to spill, and an envelope containing said body and having opposite walls thereof bowed apart by said body and exerting pressure on said ends and thereby V said body having substantially flat ends and being of less thickness than it is wide on any diameter and being of itself free to spill, and

an envelope containing said body and having opposite walls thereof bowed apart by said body and exerting pressure on said ends and thereby holding said body against spilling and in a definite relation to the envelope,

one such wall being transparent.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a pack comprising a contained body including a band wound upon itself in the form of a roll, said body having substantially flat ends and being ofless thickness than it is wide on any diameter and being of itself free to spill, and an envelope containing said body and having opposite walls thereof bowed apart by said body and exerting pressure on said ends and thereby holding said body against spilling and in a definite relation to the envelope.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a pack comprising a contained body including a band wound upon itself in the form of a roll, said body having substantially flat ends and being of less thickness than it is wide on any diameter and being of itself free to spill, and an envelope containing said body and having opposite walls thereof bowed apart by said body and converging toward each other to points in a diameter and on opposite sides of and close to the periphery of said body and thereby holding the latter against spilling and in a definite relation to the envelope.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a pack comprising a contained body including a band wound upon itself in the form of a roll,

said body having substantially fiat ends and being of itself free to spill and being of less thickness than itis wide on any diameter, and an envelope containing said body and having the opposite walls thereof exerting pressure on said ends and thereby holding said body against spilling and in a definite relation to the envelope, said envelope also exerting pressure in opposite directions dia- V metrically across said body.

6. As a new article of manufacture, a pack comprising a contained body including a band wound upon itself around a central aperture, an envelope containing said body, and means coinciding with the aperture to tie the opposite walls of the envelope together, whereby the body may be unrolled by a pull on the outer end of the band and incidental rotation of said body around said means;

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ARTHUR J HARRIS. 

